Mark 12:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

Mark 12:40 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Luke 20:47
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Matthew 6:7
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 35-40)

Here, I. Christ shows the people how weak and defective the scribes were in their preaching, and how unable to solve the difficulties that occurred in the scriptures of the Old Testament, which they undertook to expound. Of this he gives an instance, which is not so fully related here as it was in Matthew. Christ was teaching in the temple: many things he said, which were not written; but notice i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

40. Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation--They took advantage of their helpless condition and confiding character to obtain possession of their property, while by their “long prayers” they made them believe they were raised far above “filthy lucre.” So much the “greater damnation” awaited them. (Compare Mt 23:33). A lifelike descr…